Yonah Jeremy Bob
Jerusalem Post, June 25, 2023
“Such military aid could include new cyber weapons, the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, new advanced Russian aircraft or even advances in the nuclear weapons field.”
For the moment, the world-shaking potential coup by the Russian Wagner Group against Russian President Vladimir Putin has ended.
Putting aside whether Wagner or Putin will return to fighting each other in the future, the event could be a paradigm shift for how the Russia-Ukraine war impacts Israeli security in terms of threats from Iran.
Since Moscow attacked Kyiv in February 2022: the war has alternately delayed an Iranian nuclear deal, because suddenly Putin was at odds with the Biden administration and the West; caused rampant fear in Israel that Russia would end Israeli air operations against Iranian proxies in Syria; delayed the Iran nuclear deal again last October, when it was revealed that Tehran provided drones to Putin and caused fear that Russia will provide new dangerous weapons to the Islamic Republic in exchange for the sale of drones.
From a security perspective, some of these trends have seemed to be to Israel’s advantage and some clearly not, without getting into the wider impact on Israel-Russia relations regarding the Jewish Agency and other issues.
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